Adjustable tray



c, H. RISTENPART.

' ADJUSTABLE TRAY.

PPLICITION FILED JUNE l2, 1919. lgg PatntedSept. 6, 192L iw/@d ATfRNEYS PA'TENT OFFICE.

CHESTER H. RISTENPART, V0F THOUSAND OAKS, CALIFORNIA.

ADJUSTABLE TRAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 6, 1921.

Substitute for application Serial No. 291,336, led April 19, 1919. This application filed June 12, 1919. Serial No. 303,611.

T o all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I. CHESTER H. RISTEN- PART, a citizen of the United States, residing at Thousand Oaks, in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Trays, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to trays for use in the drawers of desks, tables, etc., and has for its object to provide a device of this sort which will be readily adjustable to fit within drawers of various dimensions.

In accomplishing this object I employ a. tray comprising sections preferably constructed of sheet metal and provided with suitable compartments, said sections being telescopically connected in a manner to permit longitudinal adjustment of the tray.

Some of the forms which the invention may assume are exemplified in the following description and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which* Figure 1 is a perspective view of a desk drawer with one form of the adjustable tray tted therein.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the tray shown in Fig. l.

Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a cross sectional view of a modified form of the invention.

Fig. 5 is a further modification of the tray, showing compartment sections adjustable on opposite ends of the trough section.

Fig. 6 is a cross sectional view of a modiiication in the structure of the tray, in which the anged edges of the respective sections engage each other.

Fig. 7 is a similar view of a modification of this form of the invention, in which only one longitudinal compartment is employed.

In the form of the invention Vshown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the tray consists of two tray into the two parallel compartments mentioned above.

The lower edges of the vertical walls 12 and 13 are united by a bottom plate 15 or may be bent upwardly, as shown at 16 and 17 in Figs. 6 and 7, for a purpose to be explalned presently. The outer end of section 1() is closed by an end plate 18, the lower edge of which extends downwardly to the lower edges of sides 12 and 13 and below the base of the two parallel compartments. As shown in Fig. 1, the inner end. ot ser-- tion 10 is closed by an end plate 19, this plate, however, having its lower edges shaped to conform to the ends of the tray section in order to permit section 11 to be telescoped within section 10. Suitable transverse partitions. such as shown at 20, are provided to divide the tray into such compartments as may be required. Section 11 is constructed in a similar manner to section 10, but is made slightly smaller in dimensions in order that it mav fit within the side walls 12 and 13 and beneath the ridge 14. In the form of the invention shown in Figs. 6 and 7, thc lower edges of the vertical walls of section 11 fit within the bent-up edges 16 and 17 of the vertical walls 12 and 13 of section 10, and thus retain section 11 in proper relation to section 10. In the form of the invention shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the lower edges of the vertical walls of section 11 are connected by a bottom plate 21 similar to plate 15 of section 10, this plate and the vertical walls of section 11 fitting within section 10, as shown in Fig. 3. The outer end only of section 11 is closed, a plate 22 similar to plate 18 being employed for this purpose.

iVith the construction described it will be seen that the length of the trav composed of sections 10 and 11 may be easily adjusted to fit the tray within table or desk drawers of various dimensions.

The construction illustrated in Fig. 4 differs from that in Fig. 3 in that the two parts do not telescope upon each other although the compartment section has a sliding adjustability on the troughs from which it may be separated vertically and adjusted thereon without sliding or telescoping. This structure and mode of operation is applicable to the contourfof the compartment illustrated in Fig. 3, and is not confined to the particular square contour illustrated in Fig. 4.

The form of the invention shown in Fig. 7 is similar in all respects to that shown in Fig. 6 with the exception that the tray has only one longitudinal compartment, the

central ridge 14 referred to in the previous description being eliminated. This form of the invention may also be provided with suitable transverse partitions to form such compartments as may be required.

The modification illustrated in Fig. 5 includes two compartment sections 10I and 10?, each being slidably carried on a central section l1, sections 10:l and 10b and 11a being similar in cross-'section to sections l0 and 11, respectively, of the form shown in Figs. l,

.2 and 3.

-telescopically connected members, one of said members being smaller than the other and adapted to slide therein, said members having longitudinal depressions therein, said members being composed of a single piece of metal having a depressed top face, parallel side walls, a bottom wall, and an end wall covering one end only of each member, the opposite open end of the larger member of said sections having ada table to receive the open endY of the sma 1er member, and the side walls extending below sa-id depressions to rest on the bottom of the draweil and support the tray.

3. In an adjustable telescopic tray for drawers, a pair of. telescoping sections formed with depressions therein, integral supporting side walls substantially the same height as the top wall of the depressions, said side walls extending below the bottom of the depressions to rest on the bottom of the drawer and support the tray.

4:. In an adjustable telescopic tray for drawers, a pair of telescoping sections formed with depressions therein, integral supporting side walls substantially the same hei ht as the top wall of the depressions, sai side walls extending below the bottom ofthe depressions to rest on the bottom of the drawer and support the tray, and transverse divisions in one of said sections.

5. An adjustable tray comprising sections telescopically connected in a manner to permit longitudinal adjustment of the tray, one transverse partitions forming compartments.

6. An adjustable tray comprising sections telescopically connected in a manner to permit longitudinal adjustment of the tray, and means to form compartments in the tray, said'means comprising a longitudinal partition in each section and transverse partitions in one of said sections. i

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in thev presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHESTER H. RISTENPAR'I'.

Witnesses:

vW. W. HEALEY, M. E. EWING. 

